Game of Thrones Thread

[Absolutego]

Goddamn that's some terrifying nepotism. These guys must have had complete omnipotence on set, with the actors having to helplessly watch in horror as D&D destroyed their characters. It does make one wonder if they purposely ruined the finale to spite the cast, audience, or both for disagreeing with their dumb ideas.

Apparently they weren't too frequently on set. Kit Harington characterized their presence in season 8 as them "swanning in" from time to time. This is why I think at some point they just wanted to be done as quickly as possible. Whether that's due to losing interest in the series after running out of material to adapt or after getting criticism around late season 4/early season 5, or something else entirely, I cannot say.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Apparently they weren't too frequently on set. Kit Harington characterized their presence in season 8 as them "swanning in" from time to time. This is why I think at some point they just wanted to be done as quickly as possible. Whether that's due to losing interest in the series after running out of material to adapt or after getting criticism around late season 4/early season 5, or something else entirely, I cannot say.

They only cared about shocking people and once they got past the Red Wedding they figured mission accomplished.

 

[John Titor]

On another 'subverting expectations note', I know most here don't care about weaboo shit, but the massively popular Attack on Titan writer absolutely loves GoT. The television show. The season eight, television show. So I'm guessing he's going to end his massively popular series by cratering it into the fucking ground ten miles wide by 'subverting expectations'.

I'm not sure how I feel about the reveal that the Wall was a concentration camp where everyone has magic amnesia. I felt like the impact of the series is lost once the mystery of the basement was discovered.

Sounds like HBO's track record goes something like

The good
1) Band of Brothers
2) Chernobyl (from what I've heard, haven't seen it and I'm not interested in doing so anyway)?

Cancelled
1) Rome HBO
2) Deadwood

Disappointing
1) The Sopranos (yes I'm including this)
2) Boardwalk Empire
3) Westworld
4) Game of Thrones

Meh
1) The Pacific (definitely no where near as good as Band of Brothers but not outright bad)

Not sure (that is I don't know really know what people thought of such nor bothered looking into myself)
1) Borgias (betting it was the typical BS version of history HBO tends to peddle in just like you see from the Assassins Creed franchise)
2) The Young Pope (probably dealt with in the same way as the above)
3) True Blood (only thing I heard about this is the typical anti-Republican crap you'll get from HBO)
4) True Detective (heard good things about this, but I'm not sure yet to include in the good section)

My take on True Detective is the characters had great chemistry and I like the "is it supernatural or not" angle they went with but the mystery felt like an extended version of a police procedural. If you're looking for a fairplay whodunnit type of thing, prepare to be disappointed.

 

[verissimus]

I'm not sure how I feel about the reveal that the Wall was a concentration camp where everyone has magic amnesia. I felt like the impact of the series is lost once the mystery of the basement was discovered.

...dafuq...but the wall is made of titans though? Then again, Eren can't remember what happens when he goes Titan mode right (I haven't seen season 2 or read past around that point in the manga, so I'm out of the loop on that).

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Honestly, the best original programming right now is on Amazon. I've heard nothing but good things from each of their series.

Their quality is similar to HBO. Mostly misses, hits are uneven and forgettable.

Warrior of Light still plays in my head when I read Stannis scenes in the books.

That's my Stannis theme pick. I always score the novels with ancient Ultima music.

 

[Secret Asshole]

You know I'm pretty certain that cripples can still get boners and successfully procreate.

his legs don't work and his upper body still functions, I am almost certain that ancient scrolls and or books existed IRL on how to arouse cripples and that shit was written in india.

Erections, much like vaginal lubrication, is a reflex action. Yes, you can still get erections and ejaculate and Bran would be able to

I'm not sure how I feel about the reveal that the Wall was a concentration camp where everyone has magic amnesia. I felt like the impact of the series is lost once the mystery of the basement was discovered.

My take on True Detective is the characters had great chemistry and I like the "is it supernatural or not" angle they went with but the mystery felt like an extended version of a police procedural. If you're looking for a fairplay whodunnit type of thing, prepare to be disappointed.

Oh, AoT dropped in quality massively when that reveal was dropped. It was an amazing horror series with a lot of mysteries that became an allegory for World War I and II and concentration camps along with Game of Thrones style political intrigue with random magic thrown in. I completely lost interest. Thematically shifting from horror to fucking political drama was an awful fucking idea. As I understand it, lots of people dropped off the series after that was revealed, because it just takes a lot of the wind out of its sails. You have these unique monsters and this great mystery, humanity overcoming all odds and its just...bland. Like why bother? It makes me want to re-write the whole thing. I don't know how series watchers are going to react when the basement is revealed, because I went, 'Really? Seriously?' I also had to laugh because like Dany committing genocidethey try to get us to sympathize with the people who set up the concentration camp and tortured these people for centuries. Sorry, no sympathy. Its kind of laughable there.

 

[John Titor]

Erections, much like vaginal lubrication, is a reflex action. Yes, you can still get erections and ejaculate and Bran would be able to



Oh, AoT dropped in quality massively when that reveal was dropped. It was an amazing horror series with a lot of mysteries that became an allegory for World War I and II and concentration camps along with Game of Thrones style political intrigue with random magic thrown in. I completely lost interest. Thematically shifting from horror to fucking political drama was an awful fucking idea. As I understand it, lots of people dropped off the series after that was revealed, because it just takes a lot of the wind out of its sails. You have these unique monsters and this great mystery, humanity overcoming all odds and its just...bland. Like why bother? It makes me want to re-write the whole thing. I don't know how series watchers are going to react when the basement is revealed, because I went, 'Really? Seriously?' I also had to laugh because like Dany committing genocidethey try to get us to sympathize with the people who set up the concentration camp and tortured these people for centuries. Sorry, no sympathy. Its kind of laughable there.

He subverted my expectations of it being a post-apocalyptic future, which to be fair he probably wanted to avoid going that direction because that was AoT's pilot chapter.

 

[CWCissey]

Their quality is similar to HBO. Mostly misses, hits are uneven and forgettable.

Except for The Tick, which was fantastic, so they cancelled it (should have cut Mrs Maisel you wankers!)

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

I have to wonder how many blowjobs it took for D&D to secure the showrunner gig-or sacrifices to Moloch, bribes, nepotism, whatever, they didn't get it based on their writing talent, that's for sure. I could write a better script if I were in a coma, that's peak cringe.

I for one am disappointed. They could have effectively conveyed the ending that the fans got by just making an episode of G.R.R. Martin's finest piece of writing in the whole of the saga.

"Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water. When she closed her eyes at last, Dany did not know whether she would be strong enough to open them again."

Apparently they weren't too frequently on set. Kit Harington characterized their presence in season 8 as them "swanning in" from time to time. This is why I think at some point they just wanted to be done as quickly as possible. Whether that's due to losing interest in the series after running out of material to adapt or after getting criticism around late season 4/early season 5, or something else entirely, I cannot say.

It's because they've already started work for Star Wars basically. Which is really terrible, because they should have either not been precious and given it another two seasons and farmed out the writing. Not given the sort of slack, badly written ending, they shat out. Which essentially is a huge blemish on a fairly impeccable show.

 

[Teri-Teri]

I just realized that Greyworm is leading the Unsullied to death...

Spoiler

Naath has disease called the "Butterfly Fever." Upon contact, the foreigners begin to experience painful spasms then their flesh will slough from their bones.

Great job writers!

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Except for The Tick, which was fantastic, so they cancelled it (should have cut Mrs Maisel you wankers!)

The Tick was cancelled ?!

 

[Gaat]

I just realized that Greyworm is leading the Unsullied to death...

Spoiler

Naath has disease called the "Butterfly Fever." Upon contact, the foreigners begin to experience painful spasms then their flesh will slough from their bones.

Great job writers!

Either: Missandei didn't know due to being stolen at a young age. Or Grey Worm thought to do ritualistic suicide or some shit for failing his lover and his queen by protecting till his bones fell off. And the other Unsullied figured: Fuck it.

 

[Teri-Teri]

Either: Missandei didn't know due to being stolen at a young age. Or Grey Worm thought to do ritualistic suicide or some shit for failing his lover and his queen by protecting till his bones fell off. And the other Unsullied figured: Fuck it.

Or... Writers: We forgot. lol

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Or... Writers: We forgot. lol

Probably. They also forgot that because of said butterfly and it killing anyone not born there, they're a legit hippie colony so what use they'll find for fantasy Spartan eunuchs I have no idea.

 

[Polyboros2]

The Tick was cancelled ‽

Amazon shit canned it, Ben Edlund is trying to get it picked up else where.

In this day and age of competing streaming services it's a lot more possible than ten years ago, but I'm still not optimistic.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I wonder if GRRM really does want to finish the series? Or if he's just laughing all the way to the bank?
Like I know it takes forever to write books but still......trolling or genuinely writing?

Tick tick old man

 

[gobbogobb]

I think he's in a Stephen King and The dark Tower series bind. he really does want to write the rest of the series but it's just too big now for him to get his head around how to get to the end.

 

[Mola Ram]

I think he's in a Stephen King and The dark Tower series bind. he really does want to write the rest of the series but it's just too big now for him to get his head around how to get to the end.

I always thought the clusterfuck what was the end of The Dark Tower stemmed from a combination of Steve-O panicking he'd die before he finished it thanks to the near-fatal van accident, and his inability (or refusal) to recognize that some of the crap he dreamed up when he was 19 and high on mescaline maybe wasn't such a great idea after all.

 

[gobbogobb]

There was that too. But you really could tell especially in books 5 and 6 that he had no clue how he was going to wrap everything up

 

[Mola Ram]

There was that too. But you really could tell especially in books 5 and 6 that he had no clue how he was going to wrap everything up

I think his priorities changed. I think he came to really despise Roland as a character and he was starting to get faintly woke well before it was a thing (note how Susannah, his fourfold token character -- black, crippled, female, mentally ill -- replaces her oh so phallic revolver with the much more symbolically female orizas) and so he decided he deserved eternal hell instead of anything like a happy ending. At some point he clearly wanted to fold Flagg into the story and yet wrapped him up so anticlimactically that even Game of Thrones couldn't touch it. It's baffling, and a good example of what happens when you just take too damn long to write something: the guy who started it was a completely different person from the guy who finished it. (Let's not forget at some point in that process he went from an absolute drug fiend to clean and sober, too.)

I've had a lot of entertainment letdowns in my life, from Mass Effect to Game of Thrones to virtually every Star Wars product since 1997, but to this day nothing has hit me worse than The Dark Tower. I could sperg about it for days.